Hildegard of Bingen
Causes and Cures
Written work
Causes and Cures
Causae et curae (Liber compositae medicinae)
A treatise on cosmology and medicine in five books: creation and the elements, the human body, generation, temperaments and diseases, remedies and diet. It contains pages without parallel in the twelfth century on female desire, the menstrual cycle, human types according to the humours and melancholy, which it explains as an inheritance of the fall. It is the work that has fed modern readings of Hildegard as naturalist and forerunner of holistic medicine.
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Authorship note
Composed around 1151–1158. Preserved in a single complete manuscript (Copenhagen, Royal Library, Ny kgl. Saml. 90b, 13th c.); its integral attribution to Hildegard has been questioned (Moulinier), though the core is accepted as hers. Editions: Kaiser (Teubner, 1903); Moulinier (Akademie Verlag, 2003).
Editions and translations
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Deutsch
Hildegard of Bingen
Heilwissen. Causae et Curae
The Conscious LibraryHeilwissen. Causae et Curae
Pattloch, 1997
Translation: Manfred Pawlik
ISBN 9783629005410
Other works by Hildegard of Bingen
- Scivias (Know the Ways) · 1151
- The Book of Life's Merits (The Book of the Rewards of Life) · 1163
- The Book of Divine Works · 1174
- Physica (Book of the Subtleties of Creatures) · 1158
- Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations · 1158
- Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues) · 1151
- Unknown Language and Unknown Letters · 1158
- Letters · 1179
- Homilies on the Gospels · 1170
- Minor Works · 1170
- Life of Saint Hildegard · 1187
- Life of Saint Disibod · 1170
- Life of Saint Rupert · 1170
- Explanation of the Rule of Benedict
- An Explanation of the Athanasian Creed
- Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions · 1176
- On the Excellence of Saint Martin
- Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times · 1220
Sources
- Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179: A Visionary Life. Londres: Routledge, 1989 (2.ª ed., 1998).
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